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Best Old School Heavy Metal Band? (Poll Inside)

DruNk_DwArF2DruNk_DwArF2 Member UncommonPosts: 196
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Hey all i know everybody has a differnt view and opinions about music but this is for heavy metal/metal old school in particular.Listed all that i could.

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  • WantsumBierWantsumBier Member Posts: 1,079
    I voted Priest, but all of those bands were fantastic (except W.A.S.P.).

    I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.

  • Keebs1984Keebs1984 Member Posts: 1,356
    My vote goes for Queen, despite them not being a Metal band of any sort. They still were a great fuckin band.

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  • MotorheadMotorhead Member UncommonPosts: 1,193
    Since Motorhead wasn't included in that poll, I went with Iron Maiden.    Up The Irons ! 

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  • DruNk_DwArF2DruNk_DwArF2 Member UncommonPosts: 196
    Originally posted by Keebs1984

    My vote goes for Queen, despite them not being a Metal band of any sort. They still were a great fuckin band.
    I am not trying to make prove you wrong or make you look stupid in anyway but i took most of the bands from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heavy_metal_bands 

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  • Keebs1984Keebs1984 Member Posts: 1,356
    Originally posted by DruNk_DwArF2

    Originally posted by Keebs1984

    My vote goes for Queen, despite them not being a Metal band of any sort. They still were a great fuckin band.
    I am not trying to make prove you wrong or make you look stupid in anyway but i took most of the bands from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heavy_metal_bands  Wikipedia isn't a reliable source for opinionated news, as anybody can come in and add or change whatever they wish. Queen does not sound like, nor do they share similar "metal" sounds as those other bands. They are classic rock, however this argument is really just nit-picking as all these bands could just as easily fall under the rock catagory.

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  • DruNk_DwArF2DruNk_DwArF2 Member UncommonPosts: 196
    As i have no reply to that being that i respect your opinion and that you for voting

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  • JackcoltJackcolt Member UncommonPosts: 2,170
    Most of them are fantastic and very influential bands.



    I voted Metallica.

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  • mehhemmehhem Member Posts: 653
    Metallica was the only one I listened to on your list.  The black album was my favorite. 
  • Spy_HIppoSpy_HIppo Member Posts: 322
    put down led zeplen and it's not even metal(is old shool though)

    My mind has changed so much. Yet I'm still acting like I'm the same.

  • home_peacheshome_peaches Member Posts: 1

    I did not expect QUEEN to be categorized as "old school heavy metal" ...

  • LogomogoLogomogo Member Posts: 15

    I would have said Metallica a few years ago ... but they suck.

    Queen's got the grove

  • Finn-DingiFinn-Dingi Member Posts: 10

    Old School Metal is no good at all.

    There are a lot of new bands trying to copy the bands and bring it into a new modern form ... much better, but it still won't do the trick I think.

    But since it is kind of a cliche that mmporg players are either long haired metal guys  or black dressed gothic people (no offence, just a side note), I am not really surprised, that there ARE ACTUALLY a lot of those

    Nothing changes faster than history.

  • WindsurferWindsurfer Member UncommonPosts: 83
    I use to love Metallica growing up. As for the rest, well I really didn't listen to their music.
  • dhartzdhartz Member Posts: 482
    The Queen & Led Zeppelin are NOT metal. And wikipedia is a very unrelayable source when it comes of sorting genres.

    My vote goes to Maiden

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  • ApocalypticaApocalyptica Member Posts: 491
    Metallica of course :D

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  • dsorrentdsorrent Member CommonPosts: 1,627

    I used to listen to Iron Maiden when I was back in high school.... I think the last album of theirs I listened to was Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and I recall being quite disappointed in it, however, I don't really remember why. :)


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  • BrianshoBriansho Member UncommonPosts: 3,586
    Metallica 82-91

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  • SlickinfinitSlickinfinit Member UncommonPosts: 1,094
    I voted Black Sabath, any band that has Satan as a 5th member is alright as far as I am concerned.

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  • atrejuatreju Member Posts: 60
    The end part of the song "Stairway To Heaven" from Led Zeppelin is considered to be the cradle of Metal... what do you nu-metal kids with your fancy hairstyles and "bubblegum-wannabe-metal-music" actually know, you got nothing in common with us long haired and full bearded true metlars who carry the anger of the ancient gods within their balls!









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  • EggFteggEggFtegg Member Posts: 1,141

    If we're having Queen and Led Zep on the list, my vote would go to Deep Purple or Uriah Heep who should also be listed if we're using that definition of metal, but then Slayer and WASP started in 1982 and are hardly "old school" - perhaps not Iron Maiden either.

    Heh, try to make a simple poll, and you're faced with us being an awkward, pernickety lot.

  • WantsumBierWantsumBier Member Posts: 1,079

     

    Originally posted by EggFtegg


    If we're having Queen and Led Zep on the list, my vote would go to Deep Purple or Uriah Heep who should also be listed if we're using that definition of metal, but then Slayer and WASP started in 1982 and are hardly "old school" - perhaps not Iron Maiden either.
    Heh, try to make a simple poll, and you're faced with us being an awkward, pernickety lot.
    Iron Maiden started out in the mid to late 70s'.  That is still old school, if you are going to consider Metalica old school (1981).

    I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.

  • EggFteggEggFtegg Member Posts: 1,141
    Originally posted by WantsumBier


     
    Originally posted by EggFtegg


    If we're having Queen and Led Zep on the list, my vote would go to Deep Purple or Uriah Heep who should also be listed if we're using that definition of metal, but then Slayer and WASP started in 1982 and are hardly "old school" - perhaps not Iron Maiden either.
    Heh, try to make a simple poll, and you're faced with us being an awkward, pernickety lot.
    Iron Maiden started out in the mid to late 70s'.  That is still old school, if you are going to consider Metalica old school (1981).

    Yep, good point. Metalica, like Slayer and WASP are "middle school" for want of a better term   - I guess Iron Maiden just about cross over, although the stuff they're better known for was in the 80s I'd think.

  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332

    I got to see almost every band in your list .My fave from your list was SLAYER.There concerts were alive and fulla energy.There is one group i had a chance to see in canada ,that to this day was the loudest and most energy i ever seen in a concert small venue>>VENOM.Not a group you would go out and buy a record to listen to really but live they were simply amazing.They most likely came to canada only once as they were relatively unknown here being a Euro/German type metal core band.My favourite song for a long time was SEEK n DESTROY[metallica],it even made me pick up and learn guitar.This was my first complete song i learned.i just loved it.Slayer just had too many cool songs to play and listen to like AOD/seasons in the abyss/raining blood to name a few :D.

    How many remember EVIL INVADERS by RAZOR?  lol great tune.

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  • ZnithZnith Member Posts: 212
    I think part of the problem with classifying 'metal' and 'rock' with old school bands is that there was a very fine line between the two in the '70's and then of course there is progressive rock ...   Was the term heavy metal established in the 60's or '70's and which band was the first considered metal?  Was it Sabbath, Judas Priest, UFO, Maiden.  Often in the '70's the term metal and hard rock were even considered synonymous with one another and encompassed many bands of which both terms described.



    In this day and age there are many more different genres within the category Heavy Metal or Rock.  Back then I don't believe it was the norm to breakdown music into so many categories. 
  • AnofalyeAnofalye Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 7,433

    Maiden cause it is the closest to what I listen.

     

    Don't really listen to any of these, but Maiden is definitely close enough for me to actually appreciate it, unlike most other bands that would get an immediate request that they are freaking turn off! 

     

    Currently listening to: Dream Maker.  (not a major trend, nor a major group hehe, emerge from Dark Moor after some EMO issues...)

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